Challenges and lessons learned in promoting adoption of standardized local public health service delivery data through the application of the Public Health Activities and Services Tracking model

Population-level prevention activities are often publicly invisible and excluded in planning and policymaking. This creates an incomplete picture of prevention service-related inputs, particularly at the local level. We describe the process and lessons learned by the Public Health Activities and Ser...

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Published in:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Vol. 26; no. 12; p. 1660
Main Authors: Bekemeier, Betty, Park, Seungeun, Whitman, Greg
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England 01.12.2019
Subjects:
Access to Information
Data Collection - standards
Evidence-Based Practice
Government Agencies
Models, Theoretical
Public Health - standards
Public Health - statistics & numerical data
Public Health Administration - standards
Public Health Administration - statistics & numerical data
Public Health Informatics - standards
United States
United States Public Health Service
United States
public health informatics
public health systems research
evidence-based practice
public health practice
health information systems
health policy
information dissemination
health services administration
local government
state government
public health
ISSN:1527-974X, 1527-974X
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Summary:Population-level prevention activities are often publicly invisible and excluded in planning and policymaking. This creates an incomplete picture of prevention service-related inputs, particularly at the local level. We describe the process and lessons learned by the Public Health Activities and Services Tracking team in promoting adoption of standardized service delivery measures developed to assess public health inputs and guide system transformations. The 3 factors depicted in our Public Health Activities and Services Tracking model-data need and use, data access, and standardized measures-must be realized to promote collection of standard public health system data. Bureaucratic, resource, system, and policy challenges hampered our efforts toward adoption of the standardized measures we promoted. Substantial investments of time, resources, and coordination appear necessary for systems to adopt changes needed for collecting comparable service delivery data. Lessons from our process of promoting adoption of standardized measures provide recommendations to support future efforts to measure public health system contributions to the public's health.
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ISSN:1527-974X
1527-974X
DOI:10.1093/jamia/ocz160